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Title
Perry Knitting Co. Sewing Room, ca. 1900
Description
The Rice Collection annotation reads: "Print taken about 1900 of the Perry Knitting Mill and the seamstresses sewing up the underwear made at the time." This seems plausible given some of the photograph's details. There is no overhead electrical lighting, and power for the machines appears to be supplied by a series of belts. We see women in shirtwaist blouses, and male supervisors in coats or vests with bow ties. One man sports a boater hat.<br />
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Taken as a whole, this clearly formal photograph is meant to convey a well-run factory of the day: employees on tasks and managers ensuring orderly decorum. Still, at the left side of the image we can see a group of women laughing... presumably at the occasion of a photographer's visit. <br />
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This item consists of four files: a cropped image of web-friendly size, a larger cropped image, the original framed photograph, and an image cropped specifically for an OpenValley exhibit.
Publisher
Perry, NY Public Library
Date
1900-1910
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
Clark Rice Photography Collection
Format
jpeg, 1.9 MB<br />
jpeg, 7.6 MB<br />
jpeg, 3.9 MB
Type
Still image
Identifier
6844
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photograph
Physical Dimensions
8 x 5 in.